[collectd] Collecting more detail network statistics

[Bruno Prémont]

On Mon, 02 March 2009 "Ulf Zimmermann" <ulf at openlane.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:10:10PM -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> > > > I am looking at how I could collect more detailed network
> > (interface)
> > > > statistics. Extra numbers I am interested in are (all on Linux
> > > > database servers):
> > >
> > > > netstat -in
> > >
> > > Bruno already mentioned the Netlink plugin [0], I think it's
> > > exactly what you want for interface errors.
> 
> Hmmm, netlink is a problem under RedHat EL4 so far. Can't find a
> libnetlink for it so far.
> 
If RedHat is doing things similar to (Open)SuSE then the netlink
package might even be named differently if available.

For OpenSuSE I was missing netlink library as well but it did show up
starting with 11.0 (libnlink) and 11.1 (libnetlink-devel)...

For Gentoo the static library is not being installed either but it's
pretty easy to fix with slightly modified ebuild.

Bruno